IMHO, most maps in WaW are medium sized. Even if you can get up close and personal with a shotgun, from my experience, you get outgunned.
You're not playing as a shotgunner right, then. COD 4 and WaW had you really going into close quarters to make them work, going at them in open spaces isn't a good idea when the meta for the game are SMGs. If you want to outgun someone with an MP40 or a PPSh, it has to be at really close quarters, hopefully before they know what is going on. Low ammo capacity also means lots of reloading, so getting caught in the open is even less optimal. COD 4 was more forgiving due to the maps and the shotguns being better there, but a similar rule applies.
I think CoD 4 has three shotguns, one of them is a WA2000 or something. I rarely used shotguns there. AFAIK, weapon balance is more consistent compared to WaW. Good luck with headshots and the older netcode. That's my excuse.
No, there is two in both COD4 and WaW. Playing with shotguns in WaW has nothing to do with netcode, they have a specialized role and suck if you don't use them properly.
Fair enough, I need more practice.
For me, it was the R870 nerf in BO2 when they really started nerfing the shotguns. Ghosts shotguns were awful(unless you were running a Bulldog or slugs) and AW shotguns were absolutely fucking awful unless you went full retard with a S12 point black rusher build(which I did, only weapon class I got Royalty camo for). BO3 brought some normalcy back, I loved using both Brecci and Haymaker but the others sucked. Not sure if Banshii counts since it was just a laser gun, but that was good too.
Isn't the Blundergat from Mob of the Dead a shotgun?
I despise what COD multiplayer has become. The old games at least made an attempt to be visually consistent with the setting they were taking place in. But now it's just a retarded circus.
Your screen name annoys me as I'm aware they delisted the DOOM shotgun bundle from MWII for whatever reason.
I've heard of him. I can place him, I just don't see how he's actually relevant. Then again, I'm into older actresses so I guess it's a me thing. Sad thing is people say they're "tired of it," yet people still buy it.
This is by far the worst problem with modern COD titles. Lack of consistency and a general theme. The main 3 modes are no longer connected, back then you'd at least make some connections between, say, the campaign and Zombies, but nowadays that just doesn't happen anymore. Like you said, multiplayer is the part of the game that's suffered the worst possible consequences from this move. It's just a mishmash of barely related assets. None of it fits together well.
You may be right since CoD is trying to chase the Fortnite trend with collaborations. People love to spend.
Pretty good, but it never has the range I think it does. This is why it's not reliable, same as with the KRM. They really nerfed the shotguns for the most part after BO2/Ghosts, shame they never let us use slugs again to the fullest. Nothing like sniping someone from halfway across the map with a Bulldog and getting called a hacker for it.
It's actually the other way around: All three modes were doing it's own thing and maybe Multiplayer was roughly based around single player campaign maps before. Now, EVERYTHING is connected to get multiplayer and zombies guys hooked up on Warzone and vice versa. It's most apparent in the cringe "stories" Warzone tries to tell that sometimes try and have a crossover with zombies universe. Shit like this is why I am glad Aether story ended in BO4, before this cringy crossover shit happened, with Dark Aether in Cold War being a neat little side story.
